At its best?

At its best?

I’m writing this on Wednesday and the acute angle of the wintery sun is bathing the red sandstone of Niddrie Square in a wonderful light. It is, in my opinion, on clear wintery days like this that Glasgow looks at its best. But Did you sense there was a but coming?...
A Day Early?

A Day Early?

Easter, as we all know, moves about …the date on which Good Friday – Easter Sunday changes year on year. But, Christmas – to state the obvious – is always on the same date! You would think that given we all know when Christmas is we’d be better prepared, it would feel...
A Day Early?

HOPE

What are you hoping for this Christmas? Our theme of ‘hope over fear’ has been explored through the multi-layered book of Revelation, and then built upon last week through Iain’s message about ‘a great light’ (Isaiah 9… Matthew 4:16) – we believe this great light is...
A Day Early?

Advent begins in the dark

“Hope springs eternal in the human heart” claimed Alexander Pope in his poem “An Essay on Man”. These days that spring looks pretty worn and wound down. “Resilience”, that much-vaunted quality we are all encouraged to develop in the face of life’s headwinds and...
Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations! You will, by this Sunday, have made it to the end of the book of Revelation as we consider the final chapter of the book, chapter 22. September 10th, when we started this series on Revelation seems a long time ago and we’ve covered a lot of ground...
Congratulations.

Back to the future

The future struck me forcibly in a coffee shop in Pollokshields eighteen months ago. It happened when my very clever university friend was regaling me with his early-retirement PhD project. Artificial intelligence, he said, is accelerating at such a pace that we will...
Congratulations.

All the Light we Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See is the latest Netflix binge-watch chez Macaulay. It’s a beautifully rendered series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Anthony Doerr and my cultural recommendation of the week! It tells the story of a blind French girl and a German...
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Revelation walking down my street!

So, what was your street like on Tuesday evening? I expected mine to look like a scene from Revelation with kids dressed up in various costumes as their parents took them out guising. But I only saw one group, with an adult dressed as “the grim reaper” replete with...